Histories and Futures: Week 7 – Content Review

There was a lot of research into magazines and self-publishing this week. I am interested in the history of magazines, I was an avid magazine reader in my youth, I collected comics and magazines as a child, especially the ones where you could create a model from pieces for each week’s edition. As a teenager,

Histories and Futures: Week 6 – Research and Curate

This week I read about Deconstructionism in Graphic Design, research for self authored work, and ethnographic research and study, including sensory ethnography. Deconstruction rejected the project of modern criticism: to uncover the meaning of a literary work by studying the way its form and content communicate essential humanistic messages. Deconstruction, like critical strategies based on

Histories and Futures: Week 5 – Written Communication

Authoring my own work has always been a dream for me, I love self-initiated projects and working on a piece as a whole. It seems obvious to me that as a graphic designer, I should be able to use words and write something, as I spend so long visualising other people’s words and messages. The

History and Futures: Week 4 – Projecting a New Perspective

I’ve learnt this week that there are many elements to good information design. It has the power to help us understand events, issues ourselves and the world around us, and can reveal new perspectives and increase our understanding. It can even help us to see future trends, needs and issues. There is an enormous amount

Histories and Futures: Week 3 – Big Data

Information design, data visualisation, whatever you call it, it is becoming increasingly more relevant. We are bombarded with information all the time, and have been for over 100 years. We think of this as a modern problem with the advent of social media, but over the last century or so, the amount of both visual

History and Futures: Week 2 – Story Told

The lecture this week looked at typography designed for specific places to evoke that place. The customer Welsh type family designed for the Welsh government by Smorgasbord design company, is a gorgeous san serif uncial inspired face. They were inspired by old Gaelic and welsh texts, which used these types of calligraphic style hand written

History and Futures: Week 1 – History Revealed

I love typography. I was excited to start this module as letterforms inspire and intrigue me, and is one of my main passions within the field of graphic design and beyond. Over the years, through studying, my work and for fun I have read, watched and studied the history of typography, and still feel I

Week 12 – Outcome and Ambition

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: Evaluating your project after it has finished can be a valuable way to learn, not only from any mistakes you may have made, but also from what went right. It’s important to consider what went wrong and what went right, whether it was successful, for the client and the user, and solved

Week 11 – Design development

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: My research this week was all pointed to the merits of critical feedback. It is a good thing, as long as you don’t take it personally, and keep it on a professional level. It is important to learn what went wrong, to avoid mistakes in the future, whether there was miscommunication, and

Week 10 – Design Development

RESEARCH AND REFLECTION: It’s interesting reading and listening to how other designers work, their ideas going off on tangents whilst they are working through ideas, reflecting as they develop, and often using the most outlandish ideas as they tend to be the most creative. I found these inspiring this week, and jumped into working on